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College GameDay Final...and the school's first victory in a BCS bowl game in 2007. Mangino, who has a 50-47 record in eight seasons at Kansas, said he's trying to keep things in perspective. "Let me tell you something that's really important that's on my... In this article: Mark Mangino, Jeremiah Masoli, Nebraska, Stanford, Kansas, Oklahoma, Sooners, and Cornhuskers |
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Dawg Sports | November 06, 2009
Don't Bet On It!: National Game of Disinterest
...end of the day, it's still a 5-3 also-ran taking on a 5-3 also-ran. Oklahoma comes into this game having beaten Idaho State, Tulsa, Baylor, Kansas, and Kansas State. Nebraska comes into this game having carded victories over Florida...
In this article: Sun Belt, Florida Atlantic, Kansas State, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Missouri
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El Paso Times | November 08, 2009
UTEP football notes: Donald Buckram keeps adding to list of achievements
UTEP has had four pass plays of 70 or more yards this season, tying the school record. Donavon Kemp made receptions of 75 and 80 yards versus Kansas and Tulsa, respectively, and Jeff Moturi caught a 74-yard touchdown pass against Houston.
In this article: UTEP, Mike Price, Conference USA, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Houston, and Trevor Vittatoe
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Sports Illustrated | 7 days ago
Kansas' Aldrich is first pick in SI's dream team draft
Four SI.com writers gathered to draft their 2009-10 college dream college team Kansas' Cole Aldrich was the overall first pick while John Wall was the second One controversial pick: Tulsa's Jerome Jordan in the second round Kansas center...
In this article: Cole Aldrich and Jerome Jordan
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | October 28, 2009
Kansas transmission line project back in mix
...held in Tulsa, Okla. A strategic planning committee earlier this month removed the project, attracting concern from Kansas leaders who worried such a delay could endanger the state's fledgling wind energy industry. The proposed $653...
In this article: Mark Parkinson, Oklahoma, Wichita, Topeka, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, and Arkansas
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Kansas City Star | October 26, 2009
Kansas wind energy suffers a blow
...wind industry. </p><p>The strategic planning committee of the Southwest Power Pool, which oversees the transmission grid in all or parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Arkansas, recently recommended four other projects as...
In this article: Mark Parkinson, Oklahoma, Strategic planning, Kansas City Power & Light, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Westar Energy
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ESPN | October 30, 2009
UConn Huskies are preseason No. 1 in AP women's basketball poll
...of eight teams in the poll not ranked at the end of last season. The others are Michigan State, DePaul, Georgia Tech, Kansas, Georgia, Middle Tennessee State and Rutgers. The WNBA's relocation of the Shock franchise to Tulsa has every...
In this article: Connecticut, Big East, ACC, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, and Geno Auriemma
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Kansas power line is a priority again
...and replaced it with a high-voltage line in Oklahoma. But the Southwest Power Pool's board of directors, in a meeting Tuesday in Tulsa, once again made the Kansas line a priority. The decision was smoothed in part by a compromise that the...
In this article: Westar Energy, Mark Parkinson, Jerry Moran, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Oklahoma
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Kansas (/ˈkænzəs/) is a state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans."
Historically, the area was home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans who hunted bison. It was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas exploded when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into productive farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing many crops, and leading the nation in wheat, sorghum and sunflower production most years.
- Name:
- Kansas
- Also Known As:
- The Sunflower State (official);, The Wheat State
- Capital:
- Topeka
- Motto:
- Ad astra per aspera
- Largest City:
- Wichita
- Governor:
- Mark Parkinson (D)
- Lieutenant Governor:
- Troy Findley (D)
- Total Area:
- 82,277
- Area of Land:
- 211,901
- Area of Inland Water:
- 462
- Latitude:
- 37° N to 40° N
- Longitude:
- 94° 35′ W to 102° 3′ W
- Elevation Lowest Point:
- 679
- Lowest Point:
- Verdigris River
- Elevation highest point:
- 1,232
- Highest Point:
- Mount Sunflower
- Borders:
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Admittance Date:
- January 29, 1861
- Time Zone:
- Central: UTC-6/-5
- Demonym:
- Kansan
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